Delivery on Public Holidays

UK Holidays

This affects all stallions, as UK couriers cannot deliver on UK Bank Holidays. The Elite Stallions office is open on Bank Holidays, so semen can still be ordered and dispatched from the EU for next-day delivery on these days, providing there are no corresponding EU holiday dates where your chosen stallion stands.

Where a UK Bank Holiday falls on a Monday, Stallion AI Services, where our frozen semen is stored and where Jaguar Mail is standing, cannot dispatch any chilled or frozen semen, but you can personally collect semen from them in Shropshire if required, or a same-day driver can be arranged for an additional cost.

2018 UK Bank Holidays

30 March (Easter Friday) - no next-day orders can be processed on 29 March

2 April (Easter Monday)

7 May (Monday)

28 May (Monday)

27 August (Monday)

EU Holidays

Semen cannot be sent from studs in Europe on these days, but can be delivered in the UK provided there is not a corresponding public holiday, and the semen is ordered the previous day.

Where an EU Bank Holiday falls on a Monday, the earliest the semen can be delivered to the UK is the Wednesday of the same week.

The EU stud season runs from January to August; German studs will close their breeding stations at the end of July, and we stop shipping from Holland in mid August. If semen is required on EU Bank Holidays, please contact us to check if we have frozen stock in the UK, as frozen can sometimes be supplied on chilled terms in this case.